It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

The ballpoint pen as we know it was patented on June 10, 1943, by brothers László and György Bíró, who sought a cleaner, more reliable alternative to fountain pens.

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Canevet gave more details about what pen makers might do to various models of ballpoint pens in response to this norm: The cap might have a single hole, or several holes placed at the top of the ...

Who doesn’t have a ballpoint pen close at hand? A Hungarian Argentine inventor named László Bíró invented the pen as we know it today in 1938. The first patent for a ballpoint pen came out in 1888, ...